Dennis Remmer, co-owner of Brisbane record label Transmission Communications (aka Trans:Com), has spent the last two years researching Brisbane’s independent electronic music scene, from its beginnings circa 1979 to the present day.

BNE – a project Trans:Com originally started in order to help celebrate its 20th anniversary – is now complete, and the result is a beautifully packaged coffee table-style book and companion music archive (on a custom USB device) featuring 140 bands and over 260 tracks.

Combined, the book and music archive provides electronic music lovers with a complete exploration of 35 years of Brisbane-based independent electronic music performance and production. The BNE book includes comprehensive band histories, photos, cover art, event flyers, and scene insights. It is the most definitive archive of a city’s independent electronic music scene ever produced anywhere in the world.

This has been a massive undertaking, but an incredible journey of discovery. Brisbane has always been a unique and sometimes challenging place for artistic endeavour, particularly with respect to our city’s social, political and geographic context, and BNE captures the spirit of true innovation in the modern art form that is electronic music. There are some wonderful stories in BNE, but most importantly there is a lot of amazing music.

The BNE Deluxe Edition includes the 113-page “coffee table”-style book and 260-track USB music archive. The BNE music archive is available for individual track download at iTunes. A BNE Electronic Edition eBook will be released soon.

The BNE book is incredibly detailed and is a definitive statement of artistic endeavour and cultural creativity from a scene that has flown “under the radar” for too long, in a city better known for its punk and alternative rock output.The book features extensive artist chronologies, history, and opinion and includes contributions from over 140 participants in the scene, including Dave Smith (Boxcar), Lawrence English (Room40), Phill Thomson (nAM-sHUB of eNKI / Monster Zoku Onsomb!), Noel Burgess (Vision Four 5), John Willsteed (John-e Xero / ZIP / Go-Betweens etc), Andrew Kettle (Kettle / Poota / Atmospheric Disturbances), Craig Sue (Paramour / Genetic), Ande Foster (Clan Analogue / Soundhive) and many more.

Confirmed bands and artists appearing in the first edition of BNE are:

Sydney

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[…] BNE is a Book and USB stick chock full of Brisbane electronic music history. My previous projects Diaspora and Poota are featured alongside an amazingly diverse selection of music from 1979 to 2014 including awesome sounds from Xero, John Watermann, Dave Corazza, Pure Bunk, Low Key Operations, Kunt etc… […]

[…] We also represented well alongside 4 decades of amazing Brisbane electronic musicians on the BNE compilation. #Diaspora, #Poota, #Biffplex If you are after individual tracks you can get them from iTunes however it is much cheaper to get the book and USB stick through other means. […]